Directed Writing Summer Reading Examples Funny in FarsiLetter

Directed Writing: Summer Reading Examples

Funny in Farsi-Letter • Dear Firoozeh, I wanted to apologize for my actions. It wasn’t polite of me to point you and your mom out in front of the whole class. I didn’t have any bad intentions towards you and your mom. I know how it’s hard to come to a country and everything is new to you. After you left with your mom I did some research online about Iran. I read that women don’t have education there and I knew more things about your homeland. It’s a beautiful country and i had an idea that maybe I could assign the class a project about Iran so that your classmates will know where your from. It will also help you learn more about your country and on that day I would like for your mom to come to class and learn with us. Tell her my apologies for calling her out. It was so nice to meet you and have someone from Iran. It was also nice to need your mom to. I look forward for you and your mom to come to class and you to come to class. It’s great having you and once again I apologize. Thank you for your time. • Sincerely Mrs. Sandburg

Educated-Blog • The End of Days: How to prepare. What you Need. • As the Days of Abomination near us we must prepare ourselves for famine, sickness, and ungodliness. I make this list for the holy man, so that he may protect his family when chaos ensues. • 1. Bottled Fruit • Food will be scarce in the Days of Abomination as famine overtakes the land. You must have at least a 10 year supply of food at your disposal. The best fruits for this are peaches, apricot, and apples. Everything must be pitted, pressure cooked, sealed, labeled, and stored away for when the time comes. This is the most important step. • 2. Herbal Medicine • Sickness and disease are an unavoidable event. Doctors will be more useless in the Days of Abomination more than ever. • It is best to have herbal rubs, salves, and drink on-hand for emergency care. ****** • ******WARNING: HERBAL MEDICINE REQUIRES FAITH AND TRUST IN GOD FOR FULL EFFECT*****

Hillbilly Elegy-Speech • Hillbilly Elegy Discussion • Now J. D. , don't you be skipping that school now. You know these kids are being taught crazy things. You know when I was little we had to work for everything we owned. Us hillbilies are the white workingclass. Work is in the name! But now, even the folks who do little work still expect to live a comfortable and happy life. That is just crazy! Now people are taking the easy way out of livin'. When people try to use the name hillbilly because they don't want to have a good life. Ima shoot them with one of my 19 handguns. They have no right to call us lazy. We had to work to get the "American Dream. " Does that even exist anymore? Lord needs to help us all. You know these factories asked us to work for them and now they are all gone. I tell you what, these people need to be taught a lesson or two. Now J. D. , you better be listenin'. I don't want you turnin' out like those lazy sons of bitches. Half of the problems are on those presidents. I mean that Bill Clinton is the symbol of American moral decay! You know I am proud to be an American but America needs to get its head out of their ass. I mean what are we going to do with no George S. Patton in the Military!? I am just going to end on this son. You better not grow up belivin‘ everything in life will be handed to ya. You gotta work hard. You can't be like those Americans who are mistrustful and resentful to their politcal elites. Now I know I disagree on things but respect the people who represent you. Now sugar. Go help your Papaw in the yard.

Men We Reaped-Diary • August 17, 2018 • I'm questioning writing this book. It brings up so many emotions and internal scars that I've beaten down till I couldn't feel a thing. I feel like the voices of the dead are strangling my brain to force me to do it but I'm reluctant. I don't want to get money from writing my friends and family dying; it feels immoral. What if me writing this memoir curses me? • I was silent for so long and out of nowhere, I just decided to write this book? Am I crazy, journal? I still ask myself, "Would they want their lives and deaths to be forgotten? " I certainly wouldn't. • Thesemen can't die in vain. The revelation of constant death and violence within the southern community towards black folks cannot be hidden. Their violent deaths. . deaths that could have been prevented if people cared. Would this book even make people care about such a specific problem? My heart is heavy with the idea. • I hope I find peace soon. If not writing it is how I find peace, so be it. If writing it helps me find peace, I'll find a way to finish it. I feel a little more inclined to finish it now by just writing this and spilling my thoughts. • I'm going to go to make some tea and sleep now. Thanks for listening and always being there, journal.